'This is a warzone': Memphis pastors plead with city to lay down guns

[SheltieLover]

https://wreg.com/news/this-is-a-warzone-memphis-pastors-plead-with-city-to-lay-down-guns/amp/

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A group of Memphis pastors is not holding back, saying people need to be angry about the violence we’re seeing on city streets every day.

“Memphis is a city under siege. We are a city in war. This is a warzone. This is not a community,” Pastor Bill Adkins of Greater Imani Church said in a message with clergy from across the city Friday. “Why aren’t we angry? Why aren’t we upset?”

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“Citizens are sleeping on their floors and in their bathtubs, falling asleep every night by the sound of gunfire,” Adkins said.

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“Our communities are worse than some communities in Iraq, worse than communities in warzones. We have soldiers who go and fight for these countries in other lands and go through these wars unscathed. But come home to be struck down by a bullet,” Adkins said.

More at link. This is precisely why covid isolation is no different for me, except that I wear a mask to the grocery and hardware store.

So dipshit qpuke gov lee signed permitless concealed carry! the Memphis Police & TN Bureau of Investigation have been consistently & openly opposed to the new law.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. The senselessness of the violence

And signing a bill like that into law just defies explanation.

After the mass shooting in Dayton, our Gov (DeWine) pleaded with the state legislature for some reasonable gun control measures, but got nuthin’.

Now, as of Tuesday,we have Stand Your Ground.

[Karadeniz]

2. They're doing what they should have always done...speaking out against violence.

[Hoyt]

3. Have long believed that Black men and women support strict gun laws. It's

It’s white wingers that refuse to give them up out of irrational fear and racism. Plus, many white wingers are gun profiteers.